Additional details: Washington has plans for preemptive nuclear strikes on Russia and China. The US is trying to portray Russia as bad through propaganda. Russia hasn't interfered in US elections, or invaded Ukraine.

Leaked internal documents from the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) show...

Additional details: Leaked internal documents from the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) show that SBU tried to cover up the MH17 tragedy and destroyed documents proving that Ukraine was responsible for the crash.

The alleged documents were not reported by any credible media; they contain linguistic errors; they call the so-called Donetsk people's republic a "state" – whereas Ukrainian authorities use for it the term "terrorist organisation"; and they are addressed to a department that was disbanded in 2005. The whole process of planting the story, echoing it and multiplying it by state-owned media shows typical signs of a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign: http://bit.ly/2rG9YtX

Russian media twisted Viatrovych’s Facebook post from May 21 in which he wrote: "Everything that distances us from Russia is beneficial to Ukraine. Everything that maintains a connection between our countries (economy, language, history, culture, traditions and even family ties) will be used against us": http://bit.ly/2rPiLeX

Leaked internal documents from the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) show...

Additional details: Leaked internal documents from the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) show that SBU tried to cover up the MH17 tragedy and destroyed documents proving that Ukraine was responsible for the crash.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The...

Additional details: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague withdrew all charges regarding Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes during the Bosnian war. But the Western media blatantly keep silent about it.

No evidence given. The article also contradicts itself, as Commissioner Dombrovskis has stated that it is a misunderstanding. Denmark has an opt-out. All countries without opt-outs have agreed to "at some point" join the euro, once the requirements are met http://bit.ly/2scnSqj.

Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO), which is responsible for extraditions, said they had not received any requests for such an extradition from Ukrainian police, nor had they issued any extradition requests to EU authorities http://bit.ly/2r0YiQy.

In fact, Petro Poroshenko has said precisely the opposite: “There is an offer to cut off these lands, give them to Putin, build a wall, forget about the Donbas, because we will never get it back … These are not propositions that I could ever consider." http://bit.ly/2sNtOmr

EU imports from Moldova increased by 7,7% during 2016. Imports from EU fell by 18 per cent after two years of the Association Agreement compared to the period when Moldova was not an associated partner of EU (2012-2014) – says economist from Expert – Grup, Andrian Lupusor in an interview to RFE: http://bit.ly/2mvdozn //
This fact is confirmed by a detailed analysis on the consequences of the AA on Moldovan economy: http://bit.ly/2qWrjlf

Additional details: The prosecution of gay men in Chechnya is fake news.

Language / Targeted audience: Georgian

Link to the disinformation: Printed newspaper

Disinforming outlet(s): Asaval Dasavali

Reported by: East Stratcom Network

Disproof note:

Several human rights organisations have reported about the anti-gay purge in Chechnya http://bit.ly/2roAU4c,http://bit.ly/2qX2SEh, first reported by independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta http://bit.ly/2omoAza.

Additional details: Washington has plans for preemptive nuclear strikes on Russia and China. The US is trying to portray Russia as bad through propaganda. Russia hasn't interfered in US elections, or invaded Ukraine.

The Brussels (EU/NATO) elites are incrementally building a totalitarian regime...

Additional details: The Brussels (EU/NATO) elites are incrementally building a totalitarian regime and were teaching Donald Trump how to do that during the G7 meeting. // 6 million migrants are prepared by the Mediterranean coast to further neutralize what is left of national communites.

Re-occuring disinformation, usually about the Baltic States though, that countries were better off under Russian/Soviet rule than today http://bit.ly/2lBzobb. Moreover, the historian cited in the article claims not to have been interviewed. The other expert interviewed for the article, Johan Bäckman, is a well-known pro-Kremlin mouthpiece in Finland.

Additional details: Brussels has manipulated the election results in France, and they plan to do the same with the German and Czech elections this autumn. // European bureaucrats broke their promise when they did not accept the amendment to the Lisbon Treaty which would prevent the Sudeten Germans from demanding their confiscated property from the Czech state that was established after World War II.

Groundless accusations quoting an unidentified "source from usually well-informed environment". // The negotiation about the amendment was stopped by the Czech government in 2014: http://bit.ly/2rssIyC

No evidence given. About a week prior to the report, there was an incident with a politician with Bulgarian origins in Ukraine, but the incident was not as serious as the one descibed and it did not have anything to do with ethnicity http://bit.ly/2scsAUT. It is a common tactic of pro-Kremlin disinformation in Ukraine to claim that ethnic minority groups are repressed in the country http://bit.ly/2sNduCb, http://bit.ly/2rZEKAZ.

No evidence given. EU Commissioner Hahn recently made an announcement about the consideration of the allocation of 50 million euros to Ukraine for humanitarian and infrastructure projects: http://bit.ly/2s8NgNH

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